Nondestructive Editing and Adjustments


Earlier, you saw how Aperture stores your image's master data in its library, along with a small text file that contains a list of the edits and adjustments that you want to make to that image. To edit an image in Aperture, you select the image and then add the type of adjustment that you want to make. All of the adjustments that are currently applied to an image are shown in the Aperture Adjustments panel, which is displayed in the Inspector pane.

Each adjustment appears as a brick in the Adjustments panel. For example, Figure 5.1 shows a Raw Fine Tuning adjustment, a Crop adjustment, and an Exposure adjustment. Each adjustment brick contains controls for defining the parameters of that adjustment.

Figure 5.1. All of the edits and adjustments that you've applied to the current image are displayed as a stack of bricks in the Adjustments panel.


Adjustments are applied in the order that they appear in the panel, and you can deactivate an adjustment by unchecking its check box. (Figure 5.1 also shows Levels and White Balance adjustments that are not currently active.) Aperture will remember the settings for that adjustment, so you can easily turn it back on later. The ability to turn an adjustment on and off provides a simple way to make before-and-after comparisons.

The adjustments that you define in the Adjustments panel are stored in the .apversion files that are kept in the Aperture library. You learned about these in Chapter 3.

Obviously, the Adjustments panel cannot display adjustments for more than one image. If you have multiple images selected, then the Adjustments panel will show the adjustments for the current primary select.

You'll learn about all of the details of the Adjustment panel in this chapter.

The Adjustments HUD

When you work in full-screen mode, the Inspector pane is not visible, so you can't see the Adjustments panel. For this reason, Aperture provides the Adjustments HUD, a floating heads-up display that shows all of the same controls and data provided by the Adjustments panel in the Inspector pane.

You can invoke the Adjustments HUD at any time by pressing H or by choosing Window > Show Adjustments HUD. You don't have to be in full-screen mode to use the Adjustments HUD.

Throughout the rest of this book, we will use the terms Adjustments panel and Adjustments HUD inter-changeably. You can use either control.


Adjusting Images in Albums

As you learned earlier, when you place an image in an album, Aperture creates a pointer that references the original image in your project, so when you edit the image in an album, you're actually editing the original version that the album copy is pointing to. If you want to create a separate, different version for the album, then make a new version first. (You'll learn how to make new versions later in this chapter.) The same holds true for books, Web galleries, light tables, Web journals, and Smart objects.





Real World(c) Aperture
Real World Aperture
ISBN: 0321441931
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2007
Pages: 106
Authors: Ben Long

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